We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

It is not enough to acquire knowledge. Common-sense is paramount. Sadly, it is not in every knowledgeable person’s shed.

Christianity through the operation of the Holy Spirit affirms unity as well as variety (diversity) in the Body of Christ.

I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Sometimes I... No, I don't.

I ALWAYS put ketchup on my mac and cheese. Always.